From ancient times to the present, which famous people have been most closely related to heaven?

When Liu Bang was born, a dragon appeared in the sky, when Zhu Yuanzhang appeared, a very red red light appeared in the house, and when Wu Zetian was born, a real dragon appeared in the sky

Guan Yu, he was posthumously named the "Demon Emperor" in the Ming Dynasty, and was appointed to the sky, and he also became an ordinary figure at the level of the Jade Emperor, on par with the sky.

Ancient Chinese philosophy has always emphasized that the relationship between heaven and man is closely related and inseparable. This view germinated in the Mandate of Heaven theory in the Western Zhou Dynasty. During the Warring States period, Mencius and Zhuangzi developed this view from different perspectives.

Dong Zhongshu of the Han Dynasty clearly proposed that "when heaven and man are united, they become one". After the Song Dynasty, the idea of the unity of heaven and man was accepted by almost all philosophers, and due to different interpretations, the philosophical ideas expressed in it were also relatively complex.

In the doctrine of the Mandate of Heaven in the Western Zhou Dynasty, Heaven is the personality of God, the supreme lord of nature and society, so the relationship between heaven and man is actually the relationship between God and man. During the Spring and Autumn Period, with the rise of materialism and atheism, the meaning of the personality of heaven and God was questioned, and the primitive view of the relationship between heaven and man gradually evolved in the direction of philosophy. This evolution proceeded along two different lines: one was to shape the heavens according to human social relations, and then to emphasize that the ceremonial laws of personnel should be based on the shaped heavens; The second is to regard the sky as a vast and infinite nature, emphasizing that people must act in accordance with the laws of nature and not act rashly.

By the Warring States period, Mencius and Zhuangzi had proposed two different types of theories, respectively. In Mencius's philosophical system, there are two levels of relationship between heaven and man: Heaven or the Mandate of Heaven is an irresistible force that determines the development of all things, and people must accept its arrangement obediently.

Heaven is the origin of people's moral concepts, and goodness comes from talent. Therefore, if you try to maintain, cultivate, and give full play to your heart and nature, you will be able to serve and know the heavens. Mencius shaped the heavens according to his own socio-political ethics, and then in turn used this shaped heaven to argue for his own socio-political ethics.

He pursues a spiritual realm of "the same stream" of heaven and man, with the nature of mysticism.

Zhuangzi's idea of the unity of heaven and man belongs to another type. He said, "Man and heaven are the same."

There are people, and the sky is also; There is a day, and there is a day". He believed that heaven is nature, and man is a part of nature, so heaven and man are one. However, due to the formulation of various rules and regulations and moral norms, human beings have destroyed their natural nature and caused the opposition between heaven and man.

The idea of the unity of heaven and man developed in the Han Dynasty and evolved into Dong Zhongshu's theological teleology of heaven and man's induction. Dong Zhongshu's idea portrays Heaven as the prince of a hundred gods, so that Heaven dominates nature and society in a more complete sense as the supreme god. Later, Dong Zhongshu's idea of the induction of heaven and man was attacked by both materialism and refined idealism and gradually declined.

By the Song Dynasty, the idea of the unity of heaven and man had developed into a dominant philosophical tendency, which was accepted by almost all philosophers. Because the question of the unity of the world, the relationship between subject and object, and the relationship between nature and society became a common concern of philosophers at that time, it was the most convenient form to use the traditional proposition of the unity of heaven and man to express their views on these issues.